66 posts categorized "Chabad & Christianity"

November 08, 2015

In the federal court case between messianists and Chabad mainstream (but still messianist) faction over the right to use the official Chabad publishing house Kehat’s logo, Rabbi Leibel Groner, one of the late Chabad-Lubavitch rebbe’s secretaries, testified that late rebbe expressly allowed hasidim to identify him as the messiah.

September 07, 2015

The solemn penitential prayers called selichot start each year before Rosh Hashana on a Saturday night. This year, that Saturday night fell on September 5. Here is video of how these penitential prayers were conducted in the main synagogue in the international headquarters of Chabad-Lubavitch located at 770 Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn, New York.

July 22, 2014

Rabbi Dr. David Berger has written a long review of the three new books marketed as biographies of the late Chabad-Lubavitch Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson – Rabbi Joseph Telushkin's, Rabbi Chaim Miller's, and Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz's. Each book omits key facts and downplays Chabad messianism, and thanks to Berger, you can see what these three authors intentionally omitted.

May 10, 2014

Rabbi Dr. Alan Brill teaches comparative religion at Seton Hall University. Brill was driven out of Yeshiva University years ago, and his review of Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz's new book on the life of the late Chabad-Lubavitch Rebbe Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson gives the world a good look into the academic dishonesty inherent to Brill's work that was in part behind that move.

June 11, 2013

A Chabad-Lubavitch messianist who is a soldier in Israel's haredi Nahal Haredi battalion is being court-marshaled because he refuses to replace his "Yechi" yarmulke witha yarmulke that has no writing on it.

Today is the 19th yartzeit of the Rebbe. How does Bing Translator translate Chabad-Lubavitch's slogan "Yechi…", יחי אדוננו מורנו ורבינו מלך המשיח לעולם ועד, declaring the (late) Rebbe to be the messiah? Like this:

May 29, 2013

More mass delusion: Chabad messianists 'get' dollars 'from' the late Chabad-Lubavitch rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson this past Sunday in Chabad's main synagogue at 770 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn. The Rebbe died in 1994 and is (quite obviously) not visible on the video.

December 03, 2012

The Cain and Able School of Prophets is located in south Tel Aviv. It’s
founder, Rabbi Shmuel Portman Hapartzi, is a Chabad messianist. Hapartzi
believes that the generation of redemption has already arrived.
Therefore, he claims, training a new generation of prophets is
permitted.

October 23, 2012

Chabad followers present (the empty chair of) the Lubavitcher Rebbe, dead for more than 18 years, with notes asking for prayers for family members and for themselves, and bow to the imaginary rebbe sitting in that empty chair in the main synagogue of Chabad world headquarters in Brooklyn.

September 06, 2012

"The rabbis of the Talmud, particularly the Babylonian Talmud, were quite
aware that older Jewish traditions could give rise to binitarian [one
god, two aspects or personalities (or beings) of that god] notions of
God and to Divine-human figures with supernal powers: Enoch, Metatron,
David, the angels and even some notions of Adam fit this bill. And
Christianizing Jews did indeed connect the dots, which is why the
Babylonian rabbis responded to them [by condemning them] so forcefully."

August 02, 2012

Chabad IDF soldiers who wear yarmulkes with the Chabad messianist slogan, known as "Yechi…," proclaiming that the Lubavitcher Rebbe is alive and is the messiah should continue to wear those yarmulkes, despite orders from IDF brass banning them, even if this means the soldiers will be jailed, a leading Chabad rabbi reportedly ruled.

July 31, 2012

The Israel Defense Forces has reiterated its ban on kippot that have writing on them, specifically noting that Chabad followers who have insisted on wearing so-called “Yechi” yarmulkes in the military may not do so.

April 16, 2012

Jews should eat the matzoh and drink the wine of Moshiach's Seudah (the closing meal of the Passover holiday allegedly initiated by the Ba'al Shem Tov but for the most part only kept by Chabad) with perfect faith that he will come, and the messiah will become part of their very flesh and blood, and their faith.

February 12, 2012

Chabad's anti-missionary rabbi Jacob Immanuel Schochet cancelled his radio appearance last night, but anti-missionary rabbi Tovia Singer filled in for a segment and challenged Rabbi Shmuley Boteach on Botea (terrible) book, "Kosher Jesus." And here's what it all boiled down to…

February 09, 2012

A brawl broke out in Chabad's main synagogue at 770 Eastern Parkway after a Chabad yeshiva's spiritual guide demanded that a group of 'Tzfatim,' students from Chabad's extreme messianst yeshiva in Tzefat, Israel, remove room dividers they set up in the back of the synagogue so that “the Rebbe" (who died in 1994) "can conduct yechidus” – i.e., meet with the group of visitors who came to Brooklyn from Israel to celebrate Yud Shvat, the anniversary of the late Rebbe's ascent to leadership of Chabad.

January 09, 2012

"Boruch Dayan Ha'emes: With great sadness we report the passing of Mordechai Meir Hakohen Bryski, OBM, Chosid of the Frierdiker Rebbe and current Lubavitcher Rebbe ● Levaya will pass 770 tomorrow (Monday) at 10:45am."

August 08, 2011

You're Chabad. You want to do the right thing. Your yeshiva or camp, your rabbi or your parents, your hevruta or your neighbor, gives you these sheets and urges you to fill one out every day. Would you check the box with the blue arrow? Well now you don't have to make that choice.

August 03, 2011

You're Chabad. You want to do the right thing. Your yeshiva or camp, your rabbi or your parents, your hevruta or your neighbor, gives you these sheets and urges you to fill one out every day. Would you check the box with the blue arrow?

July 24, 2011

With a video screen playing full-length Farbrengen, the yeshiva student can really relive moments with the Rebbe. A large, piercing picture of the Rebbe hangs on one side, and a single table with papers and pens, offer the bochurim to write to the Rebbe – who died in 1994 – privately.

January 22, 2010

"He eats on the fasts Chazal established…I can attest that his views regarding belief in the oneness of God contains heresy and apikorsus…His ways are closely reminiscent of the cult of Shabtai Tzvi, and where it may lead, no one can know."

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